the unculD ovcu college ' students and school Suucuils We pledge ourselves to loyally build YCND, but not at the price of keping politics.
Let's hope that this affair CanDa quickty sel aside, that can get on Wil co ul winnng hundreds of thousands of young people against the missiles and for unilateral AFTER more than 20 years, 'civil defence' is once more becomIng issue of debate.
Anti-nuclear groups have denounced the government's civil defence manual Protect & demonstrated utside civil Survive fraud, and defence installations.
But the criticisms of civil defence seem a little contradictory.
It is denunced as waste of money, since the civil defence measures are totally inadequate _ O e fend the populations against nuclear attack.
But at the same time vı cerence oroeraml re criticised because th only provide shelters for a minority .of millar, criticisms are truẹ, but they miss the main point.
The reason that the government has revamped its CIVll defence programme has to do with the new way in which the Western powers are looking at nuclear war.
More 'strateists" re. and defence beginning to consider the possibility of fighting and winning a limited nuclear ke the Cruie, whici siles Missiles wal pin-point accuralv together with the neutron DOMD. and the increasing possibility of striking decs ve blow atalils!
Socialist Challenge Soviet missile silos wi first strike, all Tuc Cal war baci the framework of acce? table military options That's defence has once mo: Decome a cover meni cr. cern There is no dous that the measures descri:. ed in Protect and Sur... border on the farcical When describing hew a family can survive nuclear attack with its ow indoor shelter, the manua is careful also to expla.what to do with the corf ses of those people in ye:
shelter who di In fact the gover.. ment's own estimate anything an unde:. estimate) is that weeks of a nuclear atta:s on Britain, 35 million pe: ple would be dead The government is =.=? SCHOu. DICDa. s tion to defend the popu:: • tion in the event of nuciea attack partly becaus: there is no defence agair. the aevastallor would be wrought on B.= laln auring a nucicar al'... bardment Civil defence is a fra.: sma just binure oni:
minority bureaucrats and military could hope : really safe, but because creates the illusion there is SOA defence to nuclear atta:i when obviously there ish:
Civil defence nuclear wal more thinkable ideological. It is part oi.. war drive preparations 9 April 1981
• Ankara U.S.S.R.